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of all parts of the ship and its equipments is in all respects 

 satisfactory, and that the ship is provided with the lights, means of 

 making sound signals and distress signals as required by the 

 provisions of the present Convention and the International 

 Collision Regulations. 



(ii) The periodical survey shall include an inspection of the structure, 

 boilers and other pressure vessels, machinery and equipments, 

 including the outside of the ship's bottom. The survey shall be 

 such as to ensure that the ship, as regards the structure, boilers 

 and other pressure vessels and their appurtenances, main and 

 auxiliary machinery, electrical installation, radio installation, radio- 

 telegraph installations in motor lifeboats, portable radio apparatus for 

 survival craft, life-saving appliances, fire detecting and extinguishing 

 appliances, pilot ladders and other equipments, is in satisfactory 

 condition and fit for the service for which it is intended, and that 

 it complies with the requirements of the present Convention, and 

 of the laws, decrees, orders and regulations promulgated as a 

 result thereof by the Administration. The lights and means of 

 making sound signals and the distress signals carried by the ship 

 shall also be subject to the above-mentioned survey for the purpose 

 of ensuring that they comply with the requirements of the present 

 Convention and of the International Collision Regulations. 



(iii) A survey either general or partial, according to the circumstances, 

 shall be made every time an accident occurs or a defect is discovered 

 which affects the safety of the ship or the eflBciency or completeness 

 of its life-saving appliances or other equipments, or whenever any 

 important repairs or renewals are made. The survey shall be such 

 as to ensure that the necessary repairs or renewals have been 

 effectively made, that the material and workmanship of such 

 repairs or renewals are in all respects satisfactory, and that the ship 

 complies in all respects with the provisions of the present 

 Convention and of the International Collision Regulations, and of 

 the laws, decrees, orders and regulations promulgated as a result 

 thereof by the Administration. 



(c) (i) The laws, decrees, orders and regulations referred to in paragraph {b) 

 of this Regulation shall be in all respects such as to ensure that, from the 

 point of view of safety of life, the ship is fit for the service for which it is 

 intended. 



(ii) They shall among other things prescribe the requirements to be 

 observe as to the initial and subsequent hydraulic or other acceptable 

 alternative tests to which the main and auxiliary boilers, connections, steam 

 pipes, high pressure receivers, and fuel tanks for internal combustion engines 



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